An edition of The great sperm whale (2011)

The great sperm whale

a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature

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An edition of The great sperm whale (2011)

The great sperm whale

a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature

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The biology and economics of sperm whales, with frequent reference to Melville's Moby Dick.

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University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Pages
368

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Subjects

cetology, Sperm whale, whales, whale hunting, Cachalot macrocéphale, Pottwal, Cetaceae

People

Hermen Melville, Remington Kellogg

Places

The seven seas, New Bedford

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The great sperm whale: a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature
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Table of Contents

Preface
Page ix
1. Physty
Page 1
II. Mr. Melville's Whale
Page 8
III. Whence the Sperm Whale?
Page 55
IV. The (Un)Natural History of the Sperm Whale
Page 93
V. The Social Lives of Sperm Whales
Page 143
VI. Battle of the Giants
Page 174
VII. "I'll Have the Calamari..."
Page 191
VIII. Making Contact
Page 224
IX. How to Catch a Whale
Page 240
X. The War on Whales
Page 265
XI. "Can Leviathan Long Endure So Wide a Chase?"
Page 305
Appendix. The Adventure of a Whale Painter
Page 315
References
Page 335
Index
Page 359

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

Published in
Lawrence, Kan

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
599.5/47
Library of Congress
QL737.C435 E437 2011, QL737.C435E437 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
368
Weight
970 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24881760M
Internet Archive
greatspermwhalen0000elli
ISBN 10
0700617728
ISBN 13
9780700617722
LCCN
2010048266
OCLC/WorldCat
681500370

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